Please visit the resources page where I have added links to useful articles and publications kindly provided by some of our website users - http://www.schoolrefuser.org.uk/resources.html

It's great to have resources set out like that to be easily found and accessed. Thanks for expanding the section.

Linda - hope you don't mind, I copy and pasted info below that you had posted on the old resource thread and also your thread titled 'medication', the Monash power point program is really interesting. I'm going to take notes from it and share at support meetings.

"I had a really good chat with one of the people who run the research program yesterday and they were very supportive. The results for their research will come out next year. I will keep you all posted on any link to that or quote some in a post in regard to what they found. They worked with 60 kids at high school age and I think I may have mentioned in a much older post that (and apologies if I have any of this not quite accurate). They all received CBT but some received medication and some received a placebo and some received no med. He did emphasise the support parents need and said that they recommend to the parents they work with that they receive their own counselling of some sort and talk to their doctor or a psychologist.

They found the schools were quite flexible and cooperative (perhaps because it was a research project from a university rather than just individual parents?). They had an equal amount of boys and girls in the study who had applied. The students had to have been absent for more than a couple of months I think - some had been absent for a year from school. It is the most recent study done on this. It was focused on the best way to get students back to school. We will put a link to the research when it comes out. It was lovely to talk to talk to an academic who knew exactly where I was coming from.

There is a powerpoint presentation that some may find interesting/helpful that they have used in their program."

http://www.med.monash.edu.au/spppm/research/devpsych/download/rdudley.pdf

and from the old resources thread:-

The University of Nevada has a School Refusal and Anxiety disorders clinic run by the author of some of the books you may all be familiar with -Christopher Kearney. You can order his books on-line and I have just ordered the following Parent guide and also the therapists guide. I am hoping it puts the whole CBT more into perspective for me as I am finding that some psychologists do not seem to be approaching CBT in ways that I would have thought appropriate. They are not giving my son steps to take and then monitoring them. It seems to still be all talk. Here is a link to ordering the books.

http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Psychology/PractitionerClientGuides/?view=usa&ci=9780195308297


The site at Nevada University is:
http://faculty.unlv.edu/wpmu/ckearney/the-unlv-child-school-refusal-and-anxiety-disorders-clinic/

Linda

Hi Simon,

I don't recall other information additional to the powerpoint. Depending on who is reading it - it can be fairly self explanatory or able to be explained if a parent wants to use it to show to other to help them understand. It would be helpful, however, to make a link to the website where the research has been conducted as this is where they will hopefully add links to the research results when they are published.


http://www.med.monash.edu.au/spppm/research/devpsych/srp.html


Thanks so much for creating the links in the resource section : )
Linda

The link from Terskac of a guide for physicians is also up on the resource list on the webpage.

I came across this article written by the father of a teen school refuser (now recovered) and also some of the article is written by his son about his SR.

http://www.parenting.co.uk/education/School-Refusal.cfm

Sharon posted this link in another thread today with details of a support group starting in surrey for parents of school refusers.

http://familyvoicesurrey.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=21&cntnt01origid=15&cntnt01returnid=65#.UMHTteTX5RV